Email soma@impakt.nl to sign up for pizza! And Join us on Facebook and invite your friends! Venue: Impakt Headquarters The second film of the Impakt Film Club will be Transcendence (Wally Pfister, 2014), […]

Just out of jail, sitting in his car, Joseph drinks iced coffee, smokes cigarettes. Under the name Joetalk100 he produces homemade videos that he uploads to YouTube. He is a proud US citizen and outraged to see the country that he loves disappearing right in front of his eyes.

With Joe’s consent, Dominic Gagnon edited and re-used Joetalk100’s YouTube uploads and built this acid piece with no constraint. BIG KISS GOODNIGHT is a subjective powerful trip into the reactionary and savage psyche of the ultra conservatives in the US .

Ideas Waiting to Happen brings together creative and technical professionals to find new applications for new technologies. Participation and dinner is free. The best idea is rewarded with cash, exposure and tech support.

Impakt presentation at ArtEZ for the Studium Generale, including contributions of Lars Leeuw of the Ongemotiveerd Kunstenaars Collectief (Unmotivated Artists Collective), Foundland, Face2Facebook and David O’ Reilly.

Statistics and visualizations are used by both the government and the private sector to make political statements; sometimes playfully, sometimes out of necessity. With contributors from Amsterdam, Bratislava and Novi Sad, this event explores the politics of visualizations.

How can mobile platforms facilitate new forms of storytelling? Which urban secrets is the city of Utrecht hiding behind the unwritten stories of its inhabitants? And what are the problems we encounter when confronted with the tension between fact and fiction in oral tradition? We give you all the answers. So close your eyes and prick up your ears.

The fifth Utrecht New Media Evening features artists, activists, academics, and developers who discuss the new digital graffiti practices, and how they can establish alternative communicative systems that remain bottom-up and subversive.

The summer seems so far away already, but this final edition of Impakt Open Air brings the sun back to Utrecht for a short while. Let yourself be surprised by cutting edge animation, hilarious cult videos, found footage, unexpected plots and liberating madness, while being served by a BBQ, a cocktail bar and DJs.

From November 2009 through to January 2010, Reynolds was an artist-in-residence at Impakt. During his residency, Reynolds worked on his first feature film, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe. In this Impakt Event, some material from this film will be premiered

The Berlin Wall is gone but on the screen of your mobile phone you can see it right back on the spot where it used to be. The technology making this possible – Augmented Reality – is in the center of attention right now.

Now that the bottom of our fossil fuels has come into sight, we urgently ask ourselves: where will I get my energy from? Should we all get ‘off the grid’ and generate our own energy without third party interference?

In Double Take, his second feature film, the Belgian filmmaker and artist Johan Grimonprez delves into the increasing influence of television, news, cinema and advertising on our understanding of the present and the past.